Simmons Named in Most Important People Working in Robotics List

Business Insider has named Reid Simmons, a research professor in the Robotics Institute, among the 15 most important people working in robotics today. Business Insider cites Simmons for helping to build navigation software for NASA and for his work in building "social robots", such as Tank the "roboceptionist," and Victor, the trash-talking Scrabble-playing robot. See more from Business Insider.